Most professional coaches and athletes know they only get better with each loss. The purported GOAT of basketball, Michael Jordan, even said so in a famous 1997 Nike commercial: “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life,” and that’s why he’s so successful.
Sports professionals expect some losses, and expect to learn from them. Well, that’s too bad for Mike Tomlin, he’ll never know. During his 19 seasons at the helm of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he never had a losing one. In fact, he even brought home a Super Bowl trophy. But perhaps the most surprising part of that run, the NFL coach recently revealed, was that he was also building an elaborate city in Minecraft.
